Create & deliver training

Successful trainers spend their whole career collecting and sharing tips and techniques for improving delivery of training. We’re all focused on the best outcomes for our learners. Whether your delivery is face-to-face or live-online, find and share your great ideas here. Whether developing training for staff or patrons, you'll find tools for instructional design, online and blended learning, tutorial design and training strategies of all kinds.
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Online Conference Project Plan - example
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
Using Excel, an example of a month by month project plan for transitioning to a new web conferencing tool and in preparation for an online event.
Motivating Online Learners
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
Article for trainers about motivating e-learners
Mentoring: Leadership as a Subversive Activity
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
This article explores how mentoring in libraries can serve to build leadership by integrating learning into the structure of our work and through the development of supportive relationships, and learning organizations.
Mentoring Workbook
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
A workbook designed to provide staff with an introduction to mentoring, tools for defining roles and responsibilities for all involved in the relationship, examples of a partnership agreement, and tips on evaluating the relationship.
Mentoring Roles and Responsibilities
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
A collection of best practices of roles and responsibilities for those involved in the mentoring partnership.
Mentoring Needs and Benefits
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
Why do we need mentoring in our library organizations? Here is a summary of the needs and benefits for all those involved in the relationship.
Guiding Ohio Online: Volunteer technology instructor training
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
Guiding Ohio Online is an AmeriCorps program that places members in rural Ohio libraries to deliver digital literacy training through computer classes, one-on-one computer assistance, outreach, and volunteer recruitment.
Computer Lab Setup
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
Here are some ideas and handy illustrations on how to set up a computer lab or training room. This document can be used in conjunction with the Training Strategies Class Handouts series.
Battledecks! 2010
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
Four presenters, Janie Hermann, Angie Manfredi, Toby Greenwalt and Michael Sauers, present a deck of 12 slides in 5 minutes. The twist? They've never seen the slides before!
24 Hours in the Life of a Synchronous Trainer
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
This article follows a day-in-the-life of a trainer teaching a synchronous e-learning course.